'irl7ti.l : The CONPILIS Is published every Monday morning, by &so"' J. grave; at $1 75 per annum if paid strictly rs atvarrcs--$2 00 per annum If not paid in advance. No subscription discontinued, unless at the option of the pub• fisher, until all arrearsges are paid. ADTIIRTIEZMINTS inserted at the usual rates Jo■ Plumy'So done with neatness and die pitch. Orrice in South Baltimore street., directly opposite Wamplere Tinning Establishment -I,o4strit.sit" on the sign. Circulate the Documents! Th• subscription price of The Coasparr is now, as it has lung been. $1,75 per annum, if pawl a adrance—otherwise, $2. We will also furnish it for the campaign—from this time until after the Presidential election—at NEVIN. rr-riva CENTS, payment invariably to adranee. Persons getting up clubs will - always find us ready and willing to make proper remuneration fur their time and trouble. CiaccLarz TUE DOCUMENTS A. J. Cover, ATTORNEY AT LAW, will promptly attend to Colle'etion+ and all other business en trusted to him. Office between Fahuestocks' and Danner k Ziegler's Stores, Baltimore street, Gettysburg, Pa. [SepL 5, 1839. Edward B. Buehler, ATTOILNEY AT LAW, will faithfully and promptly attend to all business entrusted to num. He speaks the German language.— OfFtcs at the same place, in South Baltimore street, near Forney's drug store, and nearly oppo;ite DAnner k. Ziegler's store. Gettyiiburg, March--20 D. McC onaughy, 4 TTOBNEY AT LAW. (office one door west of Buehler's drug and book store.Cham ersou,-g street.) ArroltNier •N Is SOLICIToR FOa PATICNt4 AND I'eN•lloNs. Bounty Land War rants, Back-ply su.pended Claims, and all other claims ag Linst the Government at Wash ington, 1) C.: also American Claims in England. Laud W irrants located and sold,or bought,and highest prices given. Agents engaged in lo cating warrants in lowa, Illinois and other we,tern gates. 'Apply to him personally or hr letter. Gettysburg, Nor. 21, '53 J. C. Neely, idATTORNEY AT LAW, will attend to collec tions an 4 all other lin,inegii intrasted to care with promptnes4. Office in the S. E. corner of the Diamond. (formerly occupied by Win. B. McClellan, 1-::ol Gettysburg, April 11, 1859. it Wm. B. McClellan, A TT ORNE YAT AW.—Otfice in West Mid .lle estreet, one dour west of the 'Ito( CU/3C( /101,e. Gett..lJUurg. Nur. 14, 1859 Wm. A. Duncan, TTORNEV AT LAW.—OtEre in the North ih eat Lorner of Ceutre Square. Gettysburg, [Oct. 3, /.8,59. tf Dr. A. W. Dorsey, 01111E1ILY of e.irroll county. Md., baring perutatientit lueßted in Betty Burg, offers Ih4 proft. , Nioa.tl ice,. to the citizens of the too ii and surroun , ling t ottntry in the practice of the canna, bran, lie; of his profe.sion. Office and r_•-i.leoce. Baltimore street. itext door to 71 , e Compiler unit e. o here he may be found at all ticaes when not professionally engaged. REFZILENCES. Prof. athan 11. Smith, ItAltimore, lid. tier. Augustus Wetistee, 4 D. D„ BAltimorit Yd Dr. J. L. Warfield, Westminster, Dr. W . 11 tthi.ts, •` Jacob Reese, £4 J‘ihn K. Longwell, Etq., " ' it Geo. E. IS - ampler, " Thom 1c Bowen, Gettysburg. Oct. 25, 1858. t;ut J. Lawrence Hill, M. D. HAS office one ou tirt door %%est of the WT. Lotheran ~hurcit in Chatuberalaurg street, and opposite Picking's st o re, where those wishing to have any Dental Operation performed are respectfully invited to call. ItErrnaxcrs: Drs. Horner, Rev. C. P. Kranth, D. I) Itcv. 11. L. 11.tugher, D. D., Rev. Prof. M. Jaeoh:=. l'rof. M. LS:Lever. Getty sburg, April H y ':)3. The Old Codnty BtILDING, known by every man in the county. and no doubt many a one wished there never had been such a place, as many were broken up be permitting, or rather oblig ed to have their names entered upon the coun ty dockets. But look at the change. It is a pleasure now to raft there and buy goods of 5A.11: 4, 0N - at such astonishingly reduced pricea— lower than ever before offered in the county. He has just received from•the cities a large lot of new Beady-made CLOTHING, for men and boys' wear: with Hats, Boots and Shoes, Trunks, Valises. Carpet lingA, Clocks, \Vetches, Jewelry. Violins. Seors. Tobacco. Itc., See., kc. Call soon, end don't miss the great bargains now had at the 91,1 County Building, corner of the Diamond and York street ; Crettyshi rig.— ` That's lAe spot.' Thankful to his old customers for their pa tronage, he hopes by his change of location not only to retain their custom, but secure a large number of new buyers. An entire summer suit—coat, pants and r eat-- for S1,•!3! M. SA.MSON. April 16, 1860 Just in Beason! IVE rs A CALL !—The undersigned have Ur just received from the cities an immense stock of CLQTIIS, CASSINETS, VESTINGS in all varieties, kc., suitable for the season. which they offer to the public at unpre cedentedly low rates. Thee ask a call, To convince all " of the truth of his assertion. No trouble to show goods' and girt prices. A large lot of READY,MADE CLOTIILNG also selling cheaper than ever. Garments made up for men and boys, as us ual, in the very beet manner, and accoring to any style desired. The work being done in their own establishment, they are ala - are en abled to warrant it. Remember, their place of balminess is the large and commodious room ad joining Cobean k Culp's on Chs.mberiburg street. J.kCOBS k BRO., Sept. 19, 1899. Merchant Tailors. Shawls I Shawls ! AT SCHICK'S. Broche, (long and square,) Priuted,Cashutere Shawls, Stella, Ttibet, and De Laitie do April 16, 1860. Removals. unders gtted, being the authorised person I, to make removals into Erer Green Cense tery,hopes that such a$ contemplate the removal of the remains of deceased relatives or friends, will avail themselves of this season of the year to have it, done. Removals made with promptness —terms low, and so effort waned to please. • PUKE THORN, March 12, '6O. Keeper of the Cemetery. BamovaL Min subscriber has rewired his Pion gh and Machine Shop from the Foundry building to ltailroad street, opposite Tate's Blacksmith shop, back of the Bogie Hotel, where ha is -bet tor prepared that ever to attend to customers. Ploughs always on hand and made to order at 414,14tortest notice, and lfachines, Reapers, he., getatred. Man be will attend to cleaning ca d Oralrby; Mat. DAVID WAS.Rad. 1,1167 - Gast toss I Gas! . hasJo lotgo stock of • gresteta; Barium to *M*4llB'4Bl3 • ' TV& tow.* jo r i s - • "glom* Kos. - ` 2 *-- walk toptkigaZ a tbdr. 71 4 To Pm. " = "Y-441111PIUL:`' lIMEIII2 BY H. J. STAHLE 42'.;.! YEAR. PICIPZITVIA CIO THE LITTLE GRATE. • ' , lt's only a little grace: they say:ll, "Only just a child that's dead ; ' And an they carelessly turned away From the mound the spade had made that day Ah t they did not know 46,.. deep a shade, That little grace in our tome had made. know the coffin was nn crow and small, (Inc yard would ha% e serN ell for an ample pall! And one wan in his arm• Lonlii have borneaway The rosebud and its of clay. But I knew that darling hopes were hid Beneath that little coffin lid. I know that a mother stood that day, With folded hands by th it form of clay; I know that burning tears were hid 'Reath that drooping lash, and aching lid And I know her lip, and cheek, and brow Were almost as white as • our Eddie's now I know that some thing; were hid away, The crrnsou ftut k and N 1 rapping's gay The little sock. and half worn shoe, The cap, with it• plume; and tassels blue, And an empty t rib with its corers spread, As white as the face of the senseless dead "Pie a little grave! but, oh ! have care; Fur wurid-wide hopes are buried there; And you. perhap.. in (~ming May eee. like her. through blinding tears, How lunch of light, 1,o« much of joy he buried up vi ith a darling boy. iv.* dr= pop -401 Courting Pitts is a fast man, a sharp man, a man of business tact, sod always gots at the lowest cash price, and then says: Wa, I'll look about, and if I don't find any thing that snits me hetet!. I'll call and take this." Now Pitts is par tial to the fair see, and quite lately Pitts said to himself, "I am getting in to yetirs, and may as well get married." His business qualities wouldn't let him wait, so off ho starts, and calling upon a lady friend opened the conversation by remarking that he should like to know what she thought about his get ting married. "0, Sir. Pitts, that is an affair in which I am not so very greatly inter ested, and 2. prefer to leave it with yourself." " But," says Pitts, " you are inter ested; m 3 dear will you marry me?" The young lady blushed very rod, hesitated, and finally, as Pius was very well to do in the world, and of good standing in the town, she accepted Win. Whereupon the matter-of-fact Pitts re sponded, " Welt, well, I'll look about, and if I don't find any body that suits me bet ter than you I'll come back." A Lady's Thoughts on Kissing: The editross of the Weekly (Thomson, Georgia,) indulges herself in the following provoking and tantaliz ing strain :_ Well, we reckon some folks 'would really like to know what wo thought or Let's see. In the first place, we thought what an absurd idea it isin a man to ask a lady to k'iss him, just as If ho, tho scnseles being, thought the poor, trembling little creature was going to do it. The idea of a man asking for a thing so easily obtained ! Why, it is ridiculous and a woman with thu least particle of brains would hoot at. the idea. She'd say not, till doom's day. And you, poor believer, would forego the happiness of drawing nectar from the rose bud mouth, simply because you were ignoramus enough to ask for what you might have taken. There are ton thousand ways to kiss a girl without asking the pleasure. Direct her atten tion to something on the table; ask for a book you know to be there, and while she is there, go with the affected pur pose of helping her to look for it; be particular to get at her left side—do you need any more telling? If you do, bou do not deserve the kiss that might, e so-gracefully taken. A man who would ask a kiss of a fair maiden ought to be tarred and feathered as a craven hearted monster. Don't do it, don't for goodness sake ask tho girls to kiss you. Kiss them if you want to, but do it like gentlemen. Kim them if you can." Papering Rooms. The Scientific American remarks tbat.many lives have been lost from the laziness or ignorance of paper hangers, who have laid one papookbove another, instead of tearing off the old before banging the new. There was a very handsome house rear one of our pro vincial towns, which could never keep its tenants. At last it stood empty and became worthless, because a detes table fever seized upon every family that lived in it. Alllready-witted ob server promised the owner to find out the cause. He traced the mischief to one room, aid presently conjectured what was the matter there. lie let a slip of glass into the wall, found it next day dimmed with foetid, condensed vapor. He tore down a strip of paper, and found abundant cause for any amount of fever. For generations the walls bad been papered afresh, without the removal of anything underneath. And there was the putrid side and the fomenting old papers inches deep I A thorough clearance, ecruping and clean ing put an end to the foyer, and restor ed the value of the house. lora boy being praised for bis quick ness of reply, a gentleman observed : " When children are so very keen they generally become stupid as they ad vance in years." The lad immediately " What a very keen boy yon mast have been." ifirTfoi plasma test things in the world are ;assess* thoughts, sad the greatest art% II Is toluvre al *may of them as pumithle. • • 11111rAlunn who a bout of iron i atiltAkvial - boast Juiving ana*, in ns hest, THE A young lady, beautiful in person and attractive in manuer, who resided in the vicinity of Boston, was sought in Marriage some years ago by two , ni_ert. One of these was poor, and a mechanic ; the other was rich, and not a mechanic. The woman loved the former ; the family of the worwliked the latter. As is the case inYucl af fairs, the woman married to please her friends. Having thus "sold herself," she ought to have been miserable, but she was not. Her husband's unaffect- ' ed love subdued her heart, and his gold smoothed the rough places in the hu man path. Fortune, feeling that this couple were too happy, frowned and' the man's riches took wings and used them in flight. Thereupon the hus band wound up his business, put . his wife and children, of whom there were two, at a comfortable boarding-house, and then departed for California, in search of money. Some letters and some remittances arrived from him at first, then nothing came, and there was a blank of several years. The wife thought herself deserted. The family, whose good opinion of the husband had not lately been so often published as formerly, told her that' it was clearly "a case for a divorce. When she had be come well accustomed to the sound of this unpleasant word, the disconsolate wife was thrown into the society of the mechanic lover, now prosperous, and still unmarried. The memory of her early, real love came upon her, and she believed with a secret joy that he had remained sligle for her sake. This thought noNtshed Ger affection, and at last she obtained a divorce from her husband, who had desirted her, and re mained absent beyond the time allow ed by the statute. This accomplished, there was no barrier between her and the mechanic of her youth. She in formed him that she was his forever, when he should choose to claim her hand. Her feelings cannot have been pleasant to learn that, since his rejce , tion by her and her marriage to anoth er, the unromantie hewer of wood had drowned his passion for hor is the waves of time, and that at the time of her handsome offer he no longer palpitated for her. fn fact, Bakis was not willing. As if all this were not embarrassing enough, who should turn up but the husbandiwho made hisappearance in the form of a letter,announcing that he had accumulated a dazzling pile of wealth, that he was on his way home, and that she was to meet him in New York.-.- The letter also chid her for negfect in not writing to him for years, and it was clear that he had sent assurances of love and also material aid at intervals during his absence; where s these hind gone, no one knows. Here, then, *as trouble. No husband, no over. The , one she had divorced; the other had refused her. Taking counsel with her self, she packed her trunk, seeing that her wardrobe was unexceptionable, and came to the metropolis. She met the coming man on his arrival, and told him the whole story as correctly as she, naturally prejudiced in favor of the. the defendant, could tell it. The husband scowled, growled, looked at the charm ing face and the becoming toilette, re membered California and its loneliness, and took her to his heart. A clergy man was summoned, a marriage was performed, and a now volume in their life's history was opened. at. rt ,i mangle, pro and t milt "ournal. GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1860. The California Widow. The "Dignity of bein' Biggers." A slave's speech on the relative stand ing of the races, and the superitrity of slavery to freedom, is reported by the Petersburg (Va.) Express, of a late date, in this wise : In front of the Central s Warehouse, a philosophical daikey, leaning lazily against the wheel of a dray.thus delive red himself to a bro they Jehu, who was disposing of himself similarly : "All niggers ought CO feel the dignity of bein' niggers, 'cept free niggers, what dunno what dignity ans. Dia minute I'm wuff about fifteen hundred dollars," and ho gave a demonstrative gesture with his left forefinger, " and a heap o' white folks can't say dat for Jeyselves. Now dar, 4l and he pointed to a "gentleman ly vagrant," "is a white mas, he could't turn hisEelf into money to save his life, more'n dat he ain't wuff nuffin, he dun no nuffin, and he won't do nutlin. I feels do dignity ob de fack, and dat's what makes me say what I do say." *"Can you take off my baird here?" said a tall slab-sided Yankee to an Al bany barber ;feeling at the same time, his chin with a noise like a grater; " it's a light baird ; what d'yer tax—three cents for a light bilird, ain't it?': " Yes, sir." " Waal, go ahead then." • While the barber was rasping three cents worth from his huge mur.zle, be espied ono of tho assistants putting cologne upon a customer's hair, through a quill in the cork of a bottle. "Look o' here, 'squire," said the Yan kee, " can't you squirt some of that pepper sarse on to my bead, tew ? Say, eau% you throw a little o' that in for the three cents ?" A Case of Soninambuiism.—At a vil lage in Belgium lately, a young lady, in a fit of delirium, resulting from sick ness, rose, dressed herself and clamber ed out on the roof: As she could not be persuaded to gb down, two slaters were sent to bring her down, but, be fore they reached tiler, she leape d oft She was,. however, butlittleinjused by the fill, as ber crinoline had swelled out and diminished the velocity of her dimmest. llerTake not much pride in mere manners. The finest dandy is not bet tor at a bow Claw a t ,poppy_ 114 , a haw wow. COMPIL ER. "TRUTH II MIGHTY, AND WILL PHIIVAIL." Nails in Fruit Trees A singular fact and ono worthy of being recorded, was mentioned to us a few days since by Mr. Alexander Duke, of Albemarle. lie stated that whilst on a visit to a neighbor, his attention was called to a large peach orchard, every tree of which was totally destroy ed by the ravages of the worm, with the exception of three, and these were the most thrifty and flourishing peach trees ho ever saw. The only cause of their superiority known to his host, was an experiment made in consequence of observing that those parts of worm eaten timber into which nails had been driven, were generally sound. When his trees were abont a year old, ho had selected three of them, and drove a ten penny nail through the body as near Cie ground as possible ; whilst the balance of his, orchard hail gradually failed and finally yielded entirely to the ravages of the worms, these trees selected at random, treated precisely in , the same manner, with the exception ! of the nailing, bad always been vigorous and healthy, furnishing him ut that very ' period with the greatest profusion of the most luscious fruit. It is supposed that the salt of iron afforded by the nails is offensive to the worm, while it is harmless, perhaps beneficial to the„ tree.' A chemical writer on tho i subject says: The oxvtlation or rusting of the iron by tht sap, evolves ammonia, which, as the sap rises, will, of course, impregnate every part of the folii.ge, and pi ova too severe a dose for the deli cate palate of intruding Inserts." Thu writer recommends driving half a dozen nails into the trunk. Several experiments of the kind have resulted successfully. ' The Agitation is Groundless. Tho Spirit of the Tunes treats with great carat:imp& the proceedings of the Legislature and ,sitrans of Massachu setts concerning the cattle disease. It says : What is pleura-pneumonia.? It is bad enough, but need not frighten a whole country from their propriety; it is only a disease that can bo handkd as wallas many other diseases; it is neither contagious or tnfectious, and is brought on generally by voids, produced by low, ill-verit;lated, heated stables, with Pad den exposures to cold, blighting, easter ly winds, getting wet on their backs, tltsd standing out behind bodges, and then again placed in those abominable, low, close, confined, heated, and Ill ventilated dens, unfitted to sustain ani mal life. Instead of killing thorn, turn them out, and let than live or die; they will pick a little grass, and most of them will recover. We are surprised at a man like Mr. Dadd ordering sus pected animals to be destroyed, And paying the parties for their loss. We have a friend hero who has bad considerable experience with pleura pneumonia; he had, about twenty years ago, some Inv) , head of valuable mslch cows affected, and many of them were a total loss. Recalled together a num ,kr of his friends, medical mon, (not Tirmers,) and, with the assistance of an able veterinary surgeon, had them properly treated, the same as if they had been human beings, and, as soon as tho climax was over, he polled down his cow-houses, and built one twenty two feet high, with four feet before and four feet behind the cows, so that they stood at an even temperature Winter and Summer, and he had no more of pleura pneumonia. We recommend the people in Massachusetts to adopt this common sense maxim, and they will soon be rid of this cattle disease ; but if they rely upon Comnfissioners and a public fund, they will have but a broken reed for their support. We recommend that the fund sub scribed for wilfully murdering cattle be applied to the more legitimate per ; pose of paying talent for their recovery ' and prevention of disease. Raspberry Paste. Masi) a quart of raspberries ; strain one-half and put the juice to the other halt; boil them a quarter of an hour, put to them a pint of red currant juice, and let all boil together until your ber ries are done enough. Pat a pound an a half of double-refined sugar into a clean pan with as much water as will dissolve it, and boil it to a sugar again, then put in your berries and juice, give them a scald, and pour it into glasses or plates,placing them in an oven to dry. A New Game.—Two well-dreissal young men are practicing the following mode of robbery in Now York : qt , While one rings the ball at the front door and inquires fur a girl whom ho alleges is employed there, the other by means of a fnlso key enters the base ment door, and appropriates such vial trilbies as may be accessible." Sarin Adrian, Mich., a man was re cently arrested for having married six wives, one of whom was a negresa t. aad two others were squaw*. larWhat would this world ba.with out woman ? A perfect blank--like a sheet of pa per not even ruled. ear All prorpecons mon can give good conned, and they like to do it p it costa them nothing. It is All .easy matter when the stomach is fall to digitalin against urn° noted pugilist, ,Tom was one of the -liepoblioaccotablbe at Chicago. Re was an native Lineola man, and was the ioador of 's rind proeass—ioa at Chicago, oo fel uicing tho noiniaatbou. The Confession. Albert W. Hicks, who was convicted in New York for the murder of Capt. Burr, and two brothers named Watts, Orr board the sloop E. A. Johnson, and who has had the sentence of death pas sed upon him, has made a confession of his crime to the keeper of the prison. He says, that between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock at night, when about 50 miles out at sea, ho commenced his bloody work. The captain and one of the Watts were below, whilst he and the other Watts were on deck, Watts keep ing a lookout at the bow, whop he crept up to him from behind and dealt him a blow on the head, felling him to the deck, and then beating his bruins out with a heavy weapon. The noise made in doing this aroused the other Watts, who, coming on deck, was knocked senseless and beaten until lift) became extinct. The double murderer then proceeded to the cabin when Capt. Burr was sleeping ? and appronehleg the unconscious man dealt him a blow which had not the desired effect and only served to arouse the captain to a sense of his danger, who, springing up, grappled with his antagonist and a ter rible struggle ensued. But hicks be mg arm' d overpoweret.: him and ho was served as his two unfortunate compan ions had been. The bodies of the men were allowed to remain on deck whilst the triple murderer mimicked the ves sel fbr the paltry sum of money which had instigated him to commit the crime. After the lapse of an hour or two— when the sloop was well out to sear-he threw the bodies overboard. Being asked how ho iidt whilst alone at that hour of night, with hie three murdered companious lying at his feet, he replied, that there were five on the boat: Rini self, the three murdered men and the devil. Then, be says, he felt well enough, but, now the devil has left him after being with him all his life and he feels very bad. He also admits being connected in the mutiny on board the brig Saltulin in the year '44, in her trip from Valparaiso to Englund. His life hasbeen one long scene of bloodshed.— Ho will to hung on tbo 13th July. Practical Amalgamation in Oh io.—Tho town of Madison, in Lake county, has been thrown into great excitement by the elopement of a white woman and a full blooded negro. The lady is about thirty years old and of more than ordin ary intelligence. Her husband is one , of the wealthiest farmers in Lake coun ty. An Abolitionist of the Gerritt Smith school, the farmer took the Afri can into his family on terms of perfect equality. -On Sunday night the wife leaving her husband asleep, fled with the Airican. They did i.ot leave the town, only going some five miles from the woman's late home. There they sought-ilielter at the house of some friends f hers, and there they were at lust accounts. The woman left her young child with its father.—C'lcreland Plain sealer, of 21414. Mutton as an Article of Food.—The American Agriculturist says :—" We mean to repeat a thousand times, or at, feast till what we say have some effect upon our countrymen, that a pound of lean, tender, juey mutton can be pro duced for half the cost of the same quantity of pork; that it is iritinitely healthier food, especially in the sum mer season, and those who eat it be come more muscular, and can do more work with greater ease to themselves than those who eat flit pork. We know nothing more delic;ous than smoked mutton liamq, .of the Soutbdown loved of sheep. 'Venison itself is not ea: perior." litriTlt is a beautiful saying of some body that " Gratitude is the music of the heart when the eborth are swept by the gentle breeze of kindness."— shiny hearts, however, might as well be strung with bedeords fur any music of gratit46 . 3 that ever comes from them. A Young Mother.—A Mrs. Case di recently at Wautoma, Wis., aged 84 7 teen years, six months and ten days. = She had been married three years, and left three young children to mourn her loss. Too Smart.—" Come huro, my little man," said a gentleman to ayoungster of fire years, while sitting iu a parlor where a large company 44 asbemblett. "Do you know mu:" Yith, thir." "Who am I ?" U You ith the man who kithed mama when papa was in New elk." The unkindest " Cut" of AU.—One of the New York pictorial papers contains a likeness of the late W. E. Burton, comedian, which it palms off upon its unsuspecting readers as the " counter feit presentment" of Hannibal Hamlin. ,p -They tell.of big rata on the lino of the Ohio Canal, and one of them is said to have towed a boat, using his tail its a tow line. That's a whopper—of a rat, we mean. If we should attempt to bpi this rat story, we should tell of that mosquito in the Montezuma Swamp, on the Canal, whoatole a pole for a tooth-pick. - Yankee Caketdation. —The hairs on the tip of • dog's tail of the average length of thirteen inches, (tail, not bakr), are made to traverse 25,483 miles by the simple act of wagging, daring an. ordinary happy life of nine years tiro months and. eleven days, which is t,be meao,lifewitte;ofa dog, though , Ike life, of many mean tionresches three. softy and "tort , awn. ins exam for minutia.* Oal. tionunnor ♦essi4" paid witch TWO DOLLARB A-TEAR Violent Storms of Rain, Hail and Wind —Lou of Life in lowa and Illinois— 'Shocking Scenes. We continue to receive the most painful accounts of tho terrible tornado in Western Illinois and Eastern lowa, on tho 3d inst. Nu similar calamity over has begun to equal this one in ac tual de*truction of life and property, and in all the attendant ffightful cir cumstances. Severe as the storm was, and great as was the damage done on the Illinois side of the Mississippi river, the storm visited with far greater vio lence the scAtion of lowa lying between Cedar RarMs and the river. AA extra of tlAMount Vernon .News, Lion coun ty, Iva, contains thrilling accounts of the tornado and its disastrous effects in that quarter. We quote the follow ing : . The whirlwind, when first seen, pro bably six or seven miles away, had the appeal-slice of a large hla , Ai shaft, or column, shaped like an upright hour glass, extending from a tremendous, threatening cloud, which for some time had been hanging over the West to the ground. Hundreds watched it as it swept on its Course, seemingly bearing directly towards Mount Vernon. It, 'was attended with a heavy roar, as of a hundred trains of cars. Branches of trees could be seen in the air, while its ,changing form and the flakes of clouds thrown from its sides showed its whirl ing Motion. When within two miles of 'us, while people were seeking safety in !collars, or, as in some cases, running wildly about the streets, it veered on its 'course, and swept by in full sight—sub- Mine but fearful. • Hardly had it passed ere a half-dress ed man, bleeding from wounds upon his head, and reeling upon his horse, rode furiously into town calling for help.— Talking incoherently, he reported per sons killed and others injured at a :late 'Tillage or hamlet ono and a half miles 'west, known as St. Mary's. In a few 'minutes hundreds were on their way •thero. The wild scene of desolation ithey found beggars description. We 'had imagined the horrors of a battle !field, but never had pictured anything eo awful as the sight of those poor vie- Urns, disabled, dying and (foul. The power and force of this "demon of the elements" must have been im lawns°. We reached the path of its fury less than an hour after, it went ! howling on. We found a h unfired men standing around mute and aghast. The 'sufferers had been borne away, but there were other evidences of its fearful imission. Houses gone, utterly gone, and nothing but blackened and smeared foundations told where they had been ; trees, one and two feet in diameter, and even larger, uprooted and hurled many 'rods, robbed of branches and foliage ; carcasses of horses; cattle and swine strewed the former barnyard. And yet the track of the whirling de :mon was not more than twenty rods in width—we speak of the central force which worked the deitruction; outside of that there was a mighty -wind, but no such traces of power were left. As heretofore stated, the town of Ca raanche, 111., was entirely destroyed.— ;The editor of the Chicago Pros, who subsequently visited the place, says: While there the sight that met the eye was perfectly horrible to look upon, 'add no pen is adequate tek,the task of conveying the most faint idea of the disastrous effects of the tornado as it passed over that place. horses and cattle are lying in every-direction, kill ed from the effects of the storm. Tho buildings all look as though they had all been torn in small fragments, scat tered over the whoh3 country, •and feathers from the bed-clothes lino the ground, and then all had been over swept with rushing waters. We went into one building where fif teen bodies, some mangled in the most frightful manner, only wrapped up in a sheet,and putin to a rough box,were ready for burial. Dr. Howell infurnied us that, from Sunday evening to Mon day noon, he had visited einety-one wounded and set twenty-three broken limbs. We saw twenty-eight dead bo dies, and there were eighty-two that required strict medical attendance, and as many more that ar3 more or less hart, yet are able to be around. In ad .dition to this number twenty-eight were swept from a raft in the river that was passing at, the time, and ton are yet missing from the town, that aro supposed to be buried in the ruins, or aro blown into the river and drowned. With the exception of half a dozen houses on the north side of tho town, every inngle budding vi either torn down, unroofed, or otherwise damaged. A worse sight no human eye ever beheld, and the heart grows sick at seeing such a destruction of life and property. The town is entirely ruined, and we do not see how it can ever be rebuilt. There are whole blocks of lots that are vacant, entirely, with nothing but the cellar to indicate that, a house ever Mood there. Out of the contents of three dry goods stores not, one cent's worth of the goods have'ever been found. The tornado struck the town a little past seven o'clock, and in less - than ten minutes the whole was in ruins. After It had passed, the town was all afloat with water; all that could, began to run from place to place, screaming at the top of their voices, cal ling for friends and for children. Itievery pile of rut* bibb, and from every demolished house, the groans of the dying and wounded were beard, and as the sound came from every part of the town, no one know where to go first, -The darkness occasioned by the Week clouds, the'sir being filled with rubbish of every Con ceivable character, and the near .ep pram:hot* nrea, rendered the emote still moresrpalliag, and sp iii eb a wail of - sentittion t so woe never went np from anyplace in the history of tar nadoes, asillid from the rainethan(Lde stroyed city. Nothing obak ii Azad to bind op the wounds of the scillarbalt no medicines were to be satjeCur the wails of the mother over her *ad -chil dren, the anguish of a with oiler the lifeless remains of a hfisband, the ether over the slaughtered children i bunting in vaih for his wife—all those tremens* that cannot *llllky be described. • In one family all that was leftirere three little girls, the father and matter and two children having been instantly killed. We saw where a fence board had been forced clear through the side of a house, end-ways, and hundreds of shingles had forced themselves` clear through the clap-boards of a house.— We visited the grave yard and saw twenty-eight graves, side and side, all dug, waiting to receive the rough boxes containing the remains of the slaugh tered people. _ The whole atmosphere around the" town is sickening, and a stench is pervading the whole path of the storm that is almost impossible to endure. NO. 35. In this vicinity, near Sterling, the wounded aro dying almost every day, and every farm-house is a hospital for the dying and wounded. Greeley has become frightened . attlie work of his own hands, now that he has aeon them smeared with the inno cent blood of the Republican chief.— Like Lady Macbeth, he rubs his hands and cries, "Out, out, damned spot l" I3ut the blood stain remains, and all great Neptune's oceans cannot wash it away. _Waving despatched Seward; ho is anxious to get rid of the (deed). But the .Now York organs of the slaughter ed chief will not permit him to escape so easily the just consequenbes of his treachery. We have already publish ed tho scathing exposures the Times and of the Courier and Enquirer. The following additional remarks of Gener al J. Watson Webb, will explain how the now celebrated letter in which Greeley conveyed to Gov. Seward his determination theuceforward to oppose him with the b. Lterest hostillity, cano to be made public. " The letter, instead of being a 'pri vate' one, is a bold, defiant, and threat ening communication, which Mr. Se ward would. have been authorized to publish immediately on its receipt; and most probably he would have publish ed it long since if it had not been as puerile as it is defiant, and in effect, threatening. It is proper tio add, how ever, that Mr. Seward did. not intend to permit its useitgainst Mr. Greeley, to whom ho continues to exercise the greatest forbearance; and when at our request, ho road the letter to Mr. Ray mond and the gentleman who accom panied him to Auburn, the Governor distinctly stated, that while be thought it proper they should know the cause of Mf. Greeley's enmity, and were at liberty to refer to the fact, that he was a disappointed aspirant foroffice, no reference must be made to the exist ence of such a letter. Of course; Mr. Raymond could not have understood this injunction, or tic would not have stated us he did, amiapparently by au thority, that such a letter had beers , written by Greeley tc Mr. Seward as early as November, 1851, when the Whig Stat&Convention refused to nom inate himAor either Governor or Lient onant-Governor, and ho determined in consequence topinish Seward." ter 31r. JOHN CovoDE has been amus ing himself by investigating the private affairs of various individuals. As the session is drawing to a close and a re port may soon be expected from his committee, it would be ik very proper winding up of the business if Mr. Co code should be subjected to the same style of examination given to others.— So far, the iuiquiry has been one-sided. To impart a show of equal justice to the investigation, Mr. Covode should take the stand, when ho could have the privilego_of answering a number of . questions touching h 4 private affairs. The information would no doubt bo edifying. 'He could tell us bow much money he rece?ved and disbursed In 1836 for political purposes. How much he spent in securing his oleCtion to - Congress against Gen. Foster. How much he is worth, and how ho made his money. how Tom Ford was elected Printer to the House. How much he expects to disburse for politicallar- • poses during this campaign. How much money is in the treasury. of the Republican State Committee, and who furnished it. Whether he considers himself an honest and a great states man. This latter question might be withdrawn to save John's modesty, but the others are very important. Patriot & It Doesn't Take. —The overthrow of Senator Seward and the nomination• of Lincoln and Hamlin, was ratified by the &publicans of Boston, assembled in Faneuil Hall, last night. There was a great crowd, but no enthusiasm; none of that earnestness which makes-a joy ous body. Tho Governor of the Com monwealth presided, and Mr. John A. Andrew made the principal speech. It was an indirect apology for the nomi nation of " Honest Old Abe " insteadof a statesman. After his speech the audience went about their business.— There was not strength enough in the meeting to give three groans for the Courier, which had been demanded by one of the kites perched in the gallery. —Courier, 25th. Ants.--A lady says that she was greatly troubled formerly with Antii in her cupboard, in which she kept not only dishes, but victuals • but, that the accidental breaking of a bottle of spirits of camphor la the cupboard cleared thorn all out. She considers camphor a, sure remedy naiad ants in all cup boards, safes, dairies, closets', ke. .It will not cost-much to try it.--R. R. , wit it Rather Late in the _Mg.—A .4. lawyer recently moved the 41 —. Court at A th ena for the roversii the Sentence await tea. - 411". p - v , - SiirWhy is 'to" break idtolin old man's lomat_ lissak is broken and his locks arertsw.l -r: *iiirThe Preitiok.Asaieg WOMLO ' B Botkaiik--s&' .g* ' Ml4l4llo4 fans: - • 1.4:4. Stirlt limas s i tlamett 11111- mitairOlit Ottol9'W .„ 71i Irikt , • '4l" A Traitor Alarmed. MIMI
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